Sean Hussick, who lives across the street and five doors down from the home at 320 Northfield Drive where the Humphries lived for more than three decades, did indeed get the couple out safely.

"Not even a minute after Sean came out of the house with Gene, the house just went up," Sean's wife, Jill Hussick, said. "Sean was holding on to Gene, and it just went, 'Boom!' and the windows just blew out the back."

Black smoke billowed out everywhere.

"He couldn't even breathe," she said.

"He was our hero, and he saved Grandma and Grandpa," said Kayla.

Sean Hussick said he didn't want talk on camera because he doesn't think what he did was worthy of praise. His son, though, disagreed.

"One of them had no shoes on, I really think it's just amazing. They knew to just leave the house and they said they were screaming, 'Grandma and Papa, get out, get out!' but Grandma and Grandpa were trying to put the fire out," Jill Hussick said. "But a grease fire, I learned a lesson, (with) a grease fire, you just get out of the house. You don't worry about anything else but yourself, and that's what the girls did."

Brooke says it was the Hussicks who inspired her and her sisters to be brave and rush for help.